Christians: If Adam and Eve were white, where did Black people come from?

Question

If Adam and Eve were black, where did white people come from? If they were brown, where did black people and white people come from?

Answer 1

Adam was not white he was South Asian and Eve was middle Eastern. Archeology and Anthropology show that Human beings existed before Adam and Eve. Thats is why Asian, European, African, Oriental, Latin American , Eskimo people look different.

Answer 2

Nobody knows what skin color Adam and Eve had. It is not mentioned in Scripture. It is possible that one or a few of the 8 people who survived the Flood had a darker skin color than the others, which would have added to the genetic variety in the generations after the Flood. We do know that the major language families didn't appear until after the Tower of Babel incident. Of course, they wouldn't have been broken up into modern English, Spanish, German, etc., since those didn't even develop until several hundred years ago. The post-Flood language groups may have been Indo-European and Oriental language groups. The white Europeans that most Americans descended from are descendants of Japheth, one of Noah's sons. The Europeans kept meticulous records of their descent from Japheth. Shem was probably the patriarch of the Semites (Shemites), whereas Ham may have been the father of the Asian or African peoples. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that says that Ham's curse (for disrespecting his father) was being turned black. This is just something that white supremacists say. It did say, however, that Ham was to be a servant of his brothers. It does not say that his descendants are also to be servants.

Answer 3

After the flood, when the different languages came into existence, groups that spoke one language moved away with others of the same language. In doing so, the gene pool for a specific group shrunk dramatically as they no longer had the entire human population to mix with. Closer inbreeding took place, and in time certain features were emphasized in these different groups (ALL of which were present as a possibility in the gene code). As further inbreeding occurred through the generations, the gene pool got smaller and smaller, to the point that people of one language family all had the same or similar features, and it would be a rarity when a different feature arose.

Another explanation is that Adam and Eve possessed the genes to produce black, brown, and white offspring (and everything else in between). This would be similar to how a mixed-race couple often has children that vary greatly in color from one another. Since God obviously desired humanity to be diverse in appearance, it makes sense that God would have given Adam and Eve the ability to produce children of different skin tones. Later, the only survivors of the Flood were Noah and his wife, Noah’s three sons and their wives, eight people in all (Genesis 7:13). Perhaps Shem’s, Ham’s, or Japheth’s wives were of different races. It is possible that Noah’s wife was of a different race than Noah. Maybe all 8 of them were of mixed race, which would mean that they possessed the genetics to produce children of different races. Whatever the explanation, the most important aspect of this question is that we are all the same race, all created by the same God, all created for the same purpose.

Answer 4

It is easy to think that since different groups of people have "yellow" skin, "red" skin, "black" skin, "white" skin, and "brown" skin, there must be many different skin pigments or colorings. And since different chemicals for coloring would mean a different genetic recipe or code in the hereditary blueprint in each people group, it appears to be a real problem. How could all those differences develop within a short time?


However, we all have the same coloring pigment in our skin—melanin. This is a dark-brownish pigment that is produced in different amounts in special cells in our skin. If we had none (as do people called albinos, who inherit a mutation-caused defect, and cannot produce melanin), then we would have a very white or pink skin coloring. If we produced a little melanin, we would be European white. If our skin produced a great deal of melanin, we would be a very dark black. And in between, of course, are all shades of brown. There are no other significant skin pigments.4
In summary, from currently available information, the really important factor in determining skin color is melanin—the amount produced.

This situation is true not only for skin color. Generally, whatever feature we may look at, no people group has anything that is essentially different from that possessed by any other. For example, the Asian, or almond, eye differs from a typical Caucasian eye in having more fat around them. Both Asian and Caucasian eyes have fat—the latter simply have less.

Answer 5

Noah's second son, Ham. --the Father of Black's in the Bible

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Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, shows God creating Adam, with Eve in His arm. While not strictly true to the Genesis account, this is one of the most famous depictions of the creation of Adam and Eve in Western art.Adam ("Earth" or "man", Standard Hebrew אָדָם, Adam; "flush" or "turn rosy"; "Soil" or "Light Brown", Arabic آدم, Adam) was the first man created by Elohim, or God or Allah according to the Abrahamic religious tradition

Answer 6

Tough question for them... you should maybe add additional details asking where asians came from, why there are so many different eye colors (various shades of brown, blue, green, gray), hair colors (various shades of black, brown, red, and blonde) and so on... No matter what mix Adam and Eve were, it would be impossible for the genetic variety that so obviously exists if the bible were true...

Luckily the genesis story is totally absurd. Unluckily there are people who believe it.


>>"Different races stemmed from Noah... When his sons were dispersed throughout the land, they adapted to their environments..."

Comments like this I find terribly amusing. People don't believe in evolution tend to dramatically understate the amount of time it takes. For all the races to develop it would have taken probably around half a million years, there is no possible way for Noah's descendants to change so drastically in a couple thousands years - it's completely absurd.

Answer 7

From Adam and Eve supposedly the Lineage of Israel came to be... and the Israelites were not exactly Caucasians and neither was Jesus...

Add: As for the story of Cain and Abel forcing God;s hand to change the skin color, then what about Golden hued people? Red hued peoples? Honey tone hued people?

Answer 8

mm..why don't you ask parents who are black but suddenly they got a fair baby?it is not the mater of skin colours.We don't inherit all the things just the same with adam and eve.IF we will inherit all the same things,then where does the bad guys come from because both of adam and eve are good people.and if you know the story,the son of adam and eve(qabil)was bad,so,are you saying that adam and eve were bad because they got a bad son?no my dear..God(Allah) create us with different skin colors,with different cultures..He wants us to know each other,to learn why they are different.And humanity start from that small point.

Answer 9

I am still wondering where the son, Seth found his wife, and where did Lilith come from? How about this one, "and the sons of gods, looked on the daughters of men and found them fair?" And, "in those days there were giants in the earth?" Many people wrote these things over several centuries, so there will always be questions. One friend insists that our planet is a dumping ground for rejects from other planets. Best wishes

Answer 10

Anthropologists have pretty well established that the early versions of homo erectus were black or at least dark and hairy. The cool part is that we can adapt. as the species moved to open areas the ones with more pigmentation were better protected from the sun and survived. As the species moved north into colder climates they had to seek shelter in caves and wear clothing. Pigmentation was not important as a trait, so it was lost to other traits that were important for survival. so it goes....we continue to ADAPT.

Answer 11

Adam and Eve are the mythological first people of the Levant. According to myth Adam's first wife was Lilith who refused to submit to Adam and was cast out of the garden by God and replaced with Eve. Lilith went on to become a demoness who feed off the blood of the children of Adam and Eve in revenge for being cast out and is the mother of all vampires. Cain was seduced by Lilith and killed his brother Able at her direction and he became the first male vampire. They were destroyed in the flood but some of their progeny survived underground and reinfested the Earth with vampires beginning with King Nimrod.

Of course none of this is real, I just made it up on the spur of the moment, just like the originator of the Adam and Eve myth made his story up because it was a good tale.